Is Worse Better? Some Surprising White Support For Obama

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If you pay a visit to Barack Obama`s official campaign website, you will find a host of subgroups in the “People” section boosting his candidacy. The man who will help us overcome race has separate categories for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Latinos, First Americans (he is not talking about the ancestors of Kennewick Man) and, of course, African Americans. If you are white and racist enough to notice you are not part of Obama`s rainbow, don`t worry. You can still join groups for students, women, veterans or the LGBT crowd.

Paul Gottfried, who also spoke at the event, speculated that most of the over 250 people in attendance would most likely support Obama over McCain. “Better a black who is honest about who he is than a conservative who is really delivering the liberal agenda,” declared Gottfried.

There seem to be three main reasons for this unexpected support for Obama`s candidacy.

First: John McCain`s stands on affirmative action, immigration, official English, the Confederate flag, and other racially-tinged issues are, in fact, pretty much the same as Obama`s.

Larry Auster of the mildly white-nationalist View from the Right blog writes: “at least the Democratic president, as he welcomes Al Sharpton to the White House, won`t be giving us lectures on `true conservatism.`” Auster views McCain as a virtual death sentence for conservatism in America.

If we must have race quotas and amnesties, at least a President Obama would get us out of a costly war. McCain could well get us into an even deadlier conflict with Iran.

Third, and most important: an Obama presidency could shake up the current racial dynamics and bring about an end to white guilt and passivity over racial issues.

As Jared Taylor told Jonathan Tilove, “I think many smarter, far-thinking blacks are going to be worried that any time they start talking about discrimination, certainly institutional racism, people are going to say, `Hey, look, you`ve got a black president for heaven`s sake.`”

TakiMag`s Christopher Roach made the point that an Obama presidency could make whites more racially aware even more bluntly: “a political equivalent of the O.J. Trial for four years might be the right catalyst for this sort of `consciousness raising.`”

Marcus Epstein agrees on the potential for a white backlash. “We can be sure that a president Obama will be push for the same anti-white policies of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, while posing as a post-racial unifier,” he says. “The question is whether or not the public will buy that facade.”

As director of Pat Buchanan`s American Cause, Epstein receives quite a bit of feedback from blacks on the true meaning of an Obama presidency. One of the more printable responses came from a black man who told him: “You [presumably whites] have had 100 [sic]presidents, why can`t we have one?”

Clearly these two main groups of Obama supporters are on a collision course.

It is not hard to predict which race is in for a rude awakening.

Personally, I plan to vote for the Constitution Party which just nominated Chuck Baldwin as its presidential candidate. Baldwin is an immigration patriot and a strong conservative on all issues. A vote for him will send a clear message to the GOP that the McCain-Bush type of Republican Party is unacceptable and unworthy of support.

But an Obama presidency at least offers the possibility of an energized right wing movement in which paleos and whites of the Jared Taylor-Sam Francis school can find a home.

Just as forced integration and busing woke up many northern white ethnics in the 1960s and 70s, a black race-driven president who uses his office to excuse black rioters and defend black gangs who attack white kids will be a real eye-opener for many a nice white liberal—to say nothing of the slumbering “conservative” masses.